Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 927 The bridge section is not afraid of old age

   "Oh, I'm home, I'm home..."

  Sigourney Weaver rejoined the shoot, wearing a cashmere coat with a cashmere turtleneck, cashmere gloves, and a white plush headband.

Speaking of the plot of this line, Catherine played by her returned home. After opening the door, Weaver used a very exaggerated movement, leaning on a crutch with a white leather support under his arm, and tiptoed one foot , jump forward quickly.

   "Oh, my God..." Catherine rushed into the bedroom to change.

  The camera lens is still facing the door, and Melanie Griffiths follows in. She is the one who wants to call God.

Holding a Louis Vuitton suitcase in each hand, a small lady's bag on his body, and a briefcase under his armpit, the gorilla plush toy that Ronald personally chose was lying on his back. on her back.

"Huh..." Melanie Griffiths walked in, put down the two big bags, and then unloaded the gorilla on the chair, and sat down on the chair with a sigh of exhaustion. superior.

   This is the moment when Tess transforms from a princess back to Cinderella. After a while, the beautiful decorations and clothes become pumpkins, showing the prototype. Tess changed back to the black and white vertical striped woolen coat, and inside was a cheap black suit and white shirt.

   Only her blond hair was cut short by her friend Xin, and she still kept the look she had when she was pretending to be a manager.

  Tess’ boss Catherine is a person who is very good at controlling others with words. When she was in the car, she called her boyfriend Jack Trainor to ask him to come to the house, and half-actingly said that she would not accept him.

She treated Tess in the same way. She immediately turned Tess, who was still immature as a working woman, into her own personal maid. Using her broken leg as an excuse, she was used as a coolie, and Tess Do this and that.

   "Crackling", the first thing Catherine did when she got home was to turn on the computer. She remembered that she wrote down her plan to embezzle Tess on the memo software of the computer, and then wrote down the words that Tess should not know.

"When you came here before, did you happen to see these?" Catherine is very skillful in manipulating people's hearts. She waited for Tess to sit down and take a breath, and immediately asked the other party if she had looked at her computer to test other side. At this time, most people are not prepared.

   "What's that?" Of course Tess knew what she was talking about, and decisively acted stupid.

   "You know what? I was jotting down your thoughts, checking them out and sending them to Jack Trainor. But now it looks like what I wrote down reads like my thoughts.

  The problem is, Jack had a trouble once, he was accused of stealing ideas from the company, so he was very careful about the source of ideas after that. If I told him that the idea came from a colleague, he wouldn't even consider collaborating...let alone a secretary. "

  Sigourney Weaver naturally checked the letter while making up nonsense. Playing a **** as a penetrating three-pointer.

  Catherine judges others by herself. Tess must have read this memo. What she has to do now is to use the art of words to deceive this ignorant secretary, so as not to ruin her own affairs.

   "What am I talking about? If you saw it, you'd be asking me how it was...Trust!"

   Round things up with clumsy lies, and then hit Tess again. Catherine, a workplace animal, can justify herself in this way.

  Sigourney Weaver's line skills are the best among the three leading actors. Her long lines are completed in one go. If it weren't for being wary of her, ordinary people could easily be led into her thinking.

   Then Sigourney Weaver turned around and entered the bathroom on crutches, "Oh, I need help when I change clothes and take a shower."

  The next shot, the camera is on Melanie Griffiths, capturing her reaction to this passage.

  Seeing that Melanie was still out of breath, she couldn't stand the boss's shameless behavior, so she rolled her eyes and let out a snort.

   "Cut!"

  Seeing the director instructed this scene to be over, the two beautiful actors both let out a sigh of relief, and they don't want to do more of this kind of scene. Melanie has to carry so many boxes, and Sigourney has to pretend to be a **** and hop around fast, which is a very physical act.

  The two looked at each other, "Puchi...", they hugged each other and laughed.

  Acting in a movie is not talking, but listening to the opponent actor. Acting is the reaction after seeing the other party's lines and movements. If the acting skills of two people differ too much, there will be a situation where the signal sent by one actor cannot be picked up by the other actor.

   Only two opponents who are evenly matched can act enjoyable. One person's performance can inspire another, and another's reaction, which in turn can inspire the first actor.

  The rival scene between Melanie and Sigourney made the actors very enjoyable. One is the boss of Bichi, and the other is a scheming subordinate. The two women fight each other, which makes them very happy.

   "Sigourney's bed scene is going to be performed next, you guys get ready. Let's wait for Harrison to start." Ronald directed the lighting team to start lighting for the next scene.

   "Ronald later...you have no problem with him, right?" Sigourney Weaver and Melanie were whispering, and she knew that Melanie was almost fired.

   "Ronald is a good director, the past is in the past..." Griffiths didn't want to say too much.

"It's really good. He is an actor's director. Many times, he lets us understand by ourselves, and doesn't rigidly stipulate how to act... For example, the gorilla, I saw your scene, and I figured out Ronald's idea."

  Sigourney Weaver felt that she completely understood that the gorilla was a symbol, a symbol of the intimidation and encroachment of subordinates brought about by power in the office.

   There is a metaphor in English, there is a monkey on its back. This is a metaphor for a problem encountered by a person, which cannot be shaken off like a monkey.

  The monkey on Tess' back is Catherine's misuse of her time, letting an office assistant do everything, even the parts that don't belong to her, and intimidating with the art of words.

  Gorilla is also a kind of monkey, very powerful.

  …

Discussing Ronald's "excellent channeling skills", Sigourney Weaver changed her clothes, she was wearing high-end similar underwear, over a low-cut silk pajamas, and when she was ready, she heard Harrison Ford voice, so she went out.

   "You look so beautiful today, Sigourney."

   "You're handsome too, Harrison."

  The two stars greeted each other and prepared to shoot the next scene, a traditional Hollywood farce.

  Catherine is lying on the bed, powdering her **** to cover the freckles that white women often have.

  While making Tess keep getting concealer and perfume, she dressed herself up beautifully. He also ostentatiously told Tess that his partner, Jack Trainor, was coming soon.

   Tess doesn't want to meet with Jack under these circumstances, citing a doctor's appointment to leave.

  Catherine also ordered her to go to the pharmacy to buy contraceptives. Today she will have a long-awaited reunion, explaining the matter of Jack's marriage proposal. The art of speech is what she is best at. She directly said that the doctor could come later, and handed over five dollars and a prescription.

  It is always Catherine's style to always be self-righteous and not take other people's time seriously.

   Melanie Griffiths exits and Harrison Ford's Jack enters the room.

  Sigourney Weaver used various methods to create romance, let Jack smell her perfume, let him go to the refrigerator to get champagne, etc.

   Jack Trainor, who was about to break up with Catherine, still had a natural fear of facing this woman. When Catherine said that he was going to propose to her, Jack completely broke out. How could there be such a self-righteous person?

   "Catherine, now is really not the time to chat." Harrison Ford tried to get away with an exaggerated smile.

   At this time, Tess bought back the pills and peeked through the crack of the door outside the room. She wondered if Jack, like Catherine, played her for a fool?

When Sigourney Weaver heard it, she misunderstood it completely. She approached Harrison Ford, and then put her hand under his body, "You are right, now is not a good time to talk, isn't Big Jack Can I come out and get some air? Katie is lonely..."

  Harrison Ford's face changed, such a direct performance? "no no…"

   "Jack, what's the matter with you?" Catherine's face changed, she always has this way of making others feel guilty.

  Harrison Ford's Jack, also has an expression that feels like he is in the wrong. He finally made up his mind and said that sentence, "I have another person..."

   "Another person?" Sigourney Weaver repeated, like a middle school teacher berating her students.

"I mean, there is another important person, the client... I have an appointment with me, we can't delay, I will tell you later, goodbye..." Jack kissed Catherine, and then took advantage of her inconvenient legs and feet, as if flying escaped.

  At this time, it was time for Jack, Tess, and Mr. Tusk to meet with Metro Broadcasting to discuss the merger and acquisition plan, but Jack left in a hurry.

   "Hmph..." Tess, who was eavesdropping behind the door, smiled... She saw Jack go out, so she waited for a while, pretending she just came back from buying medicine... "Here we come..."

   "Cut!"

  Ronald is quite satisfied with the results of the scheduling. This kind of plot is often seen in classic comedy farces in old Hollywood. The two heroines, one in the light and the other in the dark, create various misunderstandings and coincidences through the door and other scene settings to push the plot closer.

However, the "working girl" in modern dramas can't use this kind of old plot too hard. Ronald just used it here, and the audience didn't think of the complaint of "another old plot" and already it's over.

"Here, here is your medicine..." Melanie Griffiths took out her notebook from her cheap purse, reached in and took out a handful of change, Put it on the table.

   "I have to go, the doctor's going to be late", and then Tess, like Jack, turned and ran away before Catherine could react.

   Tess also hurried to the meeting.

  Catherine propped her chin with her hands and thought, what happened today was so strange, everyone rushed away. She felt something was wrong in her heart, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

   "Tess, you forgot your notebook?" Catherine noticed that Tess was leaving in a hurry and forgot her notebook. At this time, Tess came downstairs and closed the door, and it was too late.

  Sigourney Weaver, with a puzzled look on her face, picked up Tess's notebook...

  People are curious, just like Tess was curious and peeked at Catherine’s computer memo, now it’s Catherine’s turn to peek at Tess’s notes.

  Tess wrote in her notebook the schedule for working with Jack Trainor, meeting with Mr. Tusk, and meeting the media assistant for the proposal next Monday.

  Catherine flipped through the pages, and her face suddenly changed, "This slut, this hateful little secretary!" She jumped off the bed and rushed into the bathroom.

   "Cut!"

  These scenes were shot very well. It can be seen with the naked eye that the rivalry between the two leading actresses is much more exciting than that played by Harrison Ford.

  However, Ronald didn’t mention this matter. He invited the two heroines and Ford to taste a high-end Japanese sushi.

  …

   "Dinner last night was really good..."

   On the second day, the scene where Tess was exposed was filmed. The shooting location was very classic, with an old-fashioned round table, so that the two M&A teams, the buyer Tusk Enterprises, and the seller Newtown Broadcasting could all sit down on an equal footing.

  Tess and Jack's costumes are related to yesterday's shooting. They met in the foyer and started talking.

   "Shall I sing solo today?" Tess became more and more confident in herself.

   "Of course, no problem", Jack was very satisfied with his partner's progress, "Tusker and Armstrong are over there, let's wait and see what color smoke is coming out of their chimneys?"

  This sentence is an allusion from the Holy See. Every time the Pope changes, a meeting is held in the Vatican to decide the candidate, and the ballots are burned every day, and the people can see the smoke in the chimney.

  If no candidate is selected, straw will be burned together, and it will be black smoke. When the next office is elected, only the votes are burned, which is white smoke. The last time the Pope was replaced by this method of burning smoke was Paul II, who was born in Poland.

  Jack uses this to describe the outcome of a conversation between a buyer and a seller.

   "My colleague has a new M&A idea, would you like to look at it?" Melanie Griffiths asked Harrison Ford while waiting for the M&A meeting to start. She also wanted to make sure that Catherine was telling the truth.

   "Of course, if you ask me for help, I will," Jack said of course no problem.

   “Aren’t there any moral concerns? For example, if someone else plagiarized…”

   "Of course not, I have been very careful, and this has never happened."

   "What's wrong with you, why are you asking?"

   "I'm just a little nervous."

   "You'll be fine..."

  The two are talking, and the two heavyweights over there have already drawn the result.

  Everyone sat down for a meeting, and Armstrong announced the sale of Metro Broadcasting to Tusk Enterprises for $68.5 million.

"boom…"

   There was a loud noise, and Catherine jumped in on crutches, "Thank God I arrived, this woman is a liar, she stole my idea." Then she raised her crutches, pointed at Tess and said:

   "This woman is my secretary, she is not a manager at all, Jack, you have been scammed."

   "What are you talking about? Tess can't be your secretary." Jack Trainor saw that Tess's wit and tenacity contributed to Teske's interest in the transaction, how could it be a secretary.

   "Then you ask her? Is she my secretary? Tess?"

   "I can explain...this is my idea." Tess was very embarrassed after being exposed, so she had to speak in a low voice.

   "My God, you are really her secretary", Jack Trainor also found out that something was wrong.

   "This woman, taking advantage of my broken bone, plagiarized my idea and pretended to be my colleague. This is my idea, my project!" Catherine sat down carelessly with the winning ticket in her hands.

"That's my idea!" Tess cried, "I can explain, Jack, that she did the lying." Melanie's voice was getting weaker and weaker, she knew it was difficult to speak clearly in a short time, full of embarrassment and shame In her heart, Tess who didn't know what to do all of a sudden stood up and walked out.

   "Well, the name of this game is that we finalize the details of the merger and acquisition." Harrison Ford's face was full of inexplicable expressions. He opened the thick merger and acquisition contract and continued to work.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald stopped the shooting and led everyone to applaud.

  After the filming of this scene, only the final ending remained, and some exterior scenes that had nothing to do with the main line were handed over to the second group for reshoots.

   "Excellent, let's go to have a Chinese dinner today..."

  …

   After dinner, several celebrities went to enjoy the weekend.

  Ronald has to continue to work, watching yesterday's sample, and preparing for the finale shooting that will start next Monday.

  He picked up the phone and chatted with Cameron Crowe, "I don't think the ending is strong enough, do you have any good ideas?"

   "Do you want a more powerful ending?" Crowe communicated with Ronald every night in the apartment to revise the following script. It had been several weeks and he was used to this way of working.

   "The preceding scenes are too exciting. The scenes played by several actresses will make the audience's appetite very high. I am worried that the original ending will not be able to hold back."

"It's a classic Hollywood twist, why aren't you satisfied? Tess proves she's the original creator of the plan to buy radio broadcasting, Tusk believes her, Catherine gets fired, and finally Tess and Jack Kissed together, classic Hollywood ending."

   "I always feel that it is not possible. We have revealed enough information before, and the audience will more or less guess the ending. We have to give them something that they didn't expect..."

  Ronald deeply felt that the previous filming was too exciting, which would cause the structure of the script to be unbalanced, and that the latter had to be suppressed, so that when the audience walked out of the cinema, they were still thinking about the plot and recommended it to their friends.

"Well, I'll think of a way. At this time, you need a Billy Wilder-style reversal ending..." Cameron Crowe scratched his head, and if he wanted to say who is best at this kind of powerful ending, It has to be my idol, the famous director and screenwriter of the 1950s, Billy Wilder.

"Well, do you have any inspiration? So... the crew will rest tomorrow, let's have an interview, no, those supervisors from the Screenwriters Union are still monitoring me. I have to find a good place to get rid of them. In this way, I have arranged for you Telephone."

  (end of this chapter)